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Seán Keyes retweeted
Another way of looking at this is that the UK state hides charges and discounts in ways that would be illegal for a company to do because they would be widely perceived as dodgy. This is the granular stuff that undermines state capacity.
I think the ‘snooping’ here is irrelevant but doing tax and redistribution through energy bills is developing world banana republic stuff. Squeezing policy agendas through powers never meant to enable them, never authorised by the public. It’s going to end in tears telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
The Dutch have had to learn how to build housing at scale, @CiaranMeers writes in today’s @ProgressIreland newsletter.
After the war, The Netherlands' population boomed.
VINEX towns take many forms. Some are modern, some are traditional. Some are upmarket others are not. The principle is: big masterplans; within commuting distance of an existing city; leveraging heavy rail. This creates a canvas on which many typologies can work.
@CiaranMeers is the Chairman of @CorkCommuter , and studied planning in Amsterdam. His full post can be read here. progressireland.substack.com…
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Seán Keyes retweeted
Fantastic plan for Thomas St by the LDA
As far as I know, there are no details on whether this stuff will be in the planning application
Why don't DCC put these designs in a priority area plan and let SME developers have a go in the meantime? The LDA can't do everything, after all.
Seán Keyes retweeted
Too often with housing, we let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Last night Fingal county council passed a motion to transfer a creche in a new estate into council ownership, a fair enough idea. But doing so will require a new ageement with the builder, and could delay the delivery of hundreds of social and affordable homes.
This evening, the Labour Party introduced a motion on @Fingalcoco that blocked a contract agreement on phase two of the Baile na Móna development in Swords, which would have delivered 360 affordable and social homes.
Take a bow Labour, SocDems, Aontú and Sinn Féin.
We're getting Stoneybatter-style housing. This 2006 Dutch neighbourhood (Brandevoort) shows how to do it.
✅ Windy streets
✅ Frequent greenery
✅ Cars inside the block
✅ Beside train line so lots of people can live in a walkable area -- 140 units/ha net
Seán Keyes retweeted
It is not easy, it is not cheap but the outcome will deliver a viable solution to our energy demand for future generations. Ireland’s energy needs will continue to grow and nuclear is the right choice to address both supply and cost.
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You’d need a heart of stone not to love this diagram of the detanglification of tracks at Utrecht train station.
Galway is finally getting a €1 billion ring road. Here's why I think that's good (and where Galway's houses should go)
The Galway ring road: Congestion in Galway is as bad as in Cork and much worse than in Limerick and Waterford. The slowest speed in the morning on the main roads around Galway is 62% of the speed at night. In Cork it’s 53%. In Limerick and Waterford it never goes below 92%.
If we double the track, trains could carry as many as 10,000 people an hour into the city. That’s almost five times the capacity of the buses going up Prospect Hill, which is the busiest street for buses in Galway. All at a reasonable cost.
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Four tests for whether to build a new road: is there enough orbital road already? Will it take traffic out of the centre? Will the use of the road be tolled? Will land use at each junction be controlled?
Read the full piece :
progressireland.substack.com…
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